Paste special

[John Tapsell]

Hey all,

  We need to have some form of "paste special" in many apps.  It would
be nice to get some ideas now.

  I was thinking, to take an example, in kwrite to have the Edit menu look like:

  Undo
  Redo
  -----
  Cut
  Copy
  Paste
  Paste As->
      Plain text
      HTML
      MathML
      ....
  -----
  Select All
  ....

The idea being that when you expand Paste As, it queries the clipboard
to find out what mimetypes it offers, then shows them in the drop down
list.

This would allow us to remove the current option "Copy as HTML", which
I've never really liked - it should be up the app that pastes to
decide on how to paste it.  Worst case you can always copy then paste
as HTML, then copy again :-)

Many people don't realise that quite a few kde3 apps do actually use
the clipboard quite well - if you copy from konqueror, it will provide
 text/html  on the clipboard.  But there's no way to actually paste
this as text into an editor.

We could have a similar menu for koffice.

John